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KDE Font Oxygen ‘Fit for Testing’
KDE’s very own font is coming along nicely, with its developer releasing an updated preview version for download.
KDE Font ‘Oxygen’ Available for Testing
An early alpha release of the new KDE font family is available for testing.
‘Oxygen’, designed by prolific font-maker Vernon Adams, aims to provide a ‘clear, legible, sans serif, [that's] rendered with [The Freetype Font Engine] on Linux-based devices.’
The alpha release contains three weights – regular, bold and monospace. But only support for ‘basic characters’ is currently provided.
Meet ‘Oxygen’ – A Font for the KDE Desktop
It seems that no Linux desktop worth its salt is complete without its own font. GNOME 3 has Canteral, Unity has ‘Ubuntu’, and now KDE is getting in on the typographic trend.
Meet ‘Oxygen’.
Alpha Release of Linux Spirit Font Available For Download
An alpha release of Mint Sprint – a new system font for Linux Mint – has been made available for download.
[How To] Use Android’s New ‘Roboto’ Font in Ubuntu
Android Ice-Cream Sandwich is the talk of the tech-press today – and rightly so. The next iteration of Google’s Android operating system boasts not only some wonderful new features, but ships with a renewed emphasis on design and user-interaction. As part of this ‘bettering’ of user-experience in Android a new, modern font called ‘Roboto’ was [...]
Ubuntu Font Family Update Adds Monospace Variant
A new release of the Ubuntu Font Family is available, and it comes with two new font styles: a monospaced variant, and a tight Condensed variant.
Minor annoyances #364: UBUNTU DAWG? Y U NO LET ME INSTALL MANY FONTS QUICKLY?
Happy Easter folks! Having consumed my entire body weight in chocolate eggs it wasn’t long before the nauseous party-without-a-permit in my stomach affected my brain. Gripped by this cocoa-craziness I found myself asking what anyone feeling overly-sick on sugar-filled products would ask: Why can’t multiple fonts be installed easily in Ubuntu?
The answer? The punch line? There isn’t one.
Change the way websites look in Firefox
Last night I featured a neat ‘Ubuntuizing’ Chrome extension for Wikipedia that replaced Wikipedia’s web font with the fancy new Ubuntu one.
Reader rainstride saw that and got in touch to share something most customization anoraks will have a hard time resisting: the ability to change every font displayed on every website.
Make the GNOME panel font bold, italic, bigger, smaller etc
Get your GNOME panel font to match the style of your window borders with this quick tip.
GNOME 3 gets a new font [download]
GNOME 3 will ship with many exciting new features we already know about but here’s another to chalk up to the list: a new font! The font, a ‘Humanist sans-serif’ family titled ‘Cantarell’, isn’t actually that new* – it’s already available as one of Google’s ‘web fonts’. Paul Cutler, reporting on news from the Gnome [...]
Use the Ubuntu font on any website with a bookmarklet
Force-use Ubuntu’s default font on pretty much any website you wish with this handy bookmarklet – ‘a small computer application, stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser’ – by reader Miguel Fernández.
Download and use the new Chrome OS fonts in Ubuntu
Google’s forthcoming Chrome OS ships with a new default font set that provides near-identical replacements for commonly used Microsoft fonts online. Replacing the previously used ‘Liberation’ font set are ‘Tinos’ – a Serif font akin to Times new Roman; ‘Arimo’ – a sans-serif font similar to Arial and, for fixed-width usage, Chrome OS uses ‘Cousine’ [...]
New font still on course for Ubuntu 10.10
Everyone is hoping to see the elegant new Ubuntu font in use on their desktops come October and, according to the font’s lead designer Bruno , everything is still on course for the font to ship with Ubuntu 10.10.